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Category: Management and Operations
Conflict Resolution Guide for Farmers Markets
This Guide was developed after the completion of the 3-year project Reducing Tensions on Market Day: Training Farmers’ Market Organizers and Service Providers on Conflict Resolution and De-escalation Strategies, funded by Northeast SARE.
The three-year Maine/Vermont series was held over a 3-month period during farmers markets “off-season” months winter /early spring). The state leaders for each state invited up to 6 markets, taking variables in account around market operation (small v large; paid manager vs unpaid; member-run vs board-run) to ensure a wide yet synchronistic grouping. Market attendees were required to sign a commitment for two members of each market to attend all meetings (i.e. board, vendor, and/or paid market manager where applicable) and in implementing action steps.
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Design for Outdoor Markets in U.S.
Presentation for PA Farm Markets Lunch and Learn series given by Dar Wolnik
New Hire Checklist
This New Hire Checklist from Williamsburg Farmers Market offers a structure for the process of hiring for a new market position.
Sample Job Description: Token Coordinator
This job description for the Williamsburg FM in Virginia offers a sample for hiring.
Legacy Binder Materials
A legacy binder is a set of resources and materials created in the process of succession planning that can be passed to a replacement staff person or volunteer to facilitate a smoother transition.
Online Farm Markets
OnlineFarmMarkets.com provides point of sales, inventory management, preorder options, and much much more for farm market vendors, making life easier for the market, the vendors, and the customers.
Food Assistance Handbook
Growing Hope has managed multiple farmers markets in Michigan, and created this operations handbook as a tangible guide to roles, responsibilities, and steps needed to operate food assistance programs before, during, and after a market season. While specifics will vary with different markets, this can serve as an example of how to document the operationalizing of nutrition incentive and other food assistance programs at markets.
Popular Phrases Translated into Arabic and Spanish
Michigan Farmers Market Association created two-pages of helpful farmers market and SNAP-related phrases (some Michigan-specific) translated into Arabic and Spanish.
Food Sovereignty Action Steps
This document is designed for anyone who has ever asked, “How can I help make the food system more just?” The following food sovereignty action steps were compiled by the Soul Fire Farm community and Northeast Farmers of Color alliance It is divided into seven sections #1 Policy Platform, #2 Individual Actions, #3 Reparations, #4 Alliance Building, #5 Internal Organizational Transformation, #6 Grantmaking and Funding, and #7 Self-Reflection and Education.
Effective Communication in the Cultural Marketplace
Chapter 6: Happy Vendors, Happy Managers from the Washington State Farmers Market Management Toolkit provides excellent background reading for considering ways communication and culture intersect at the market, including with immigrant vendors.
